To: Ilaine who wrote (160634 ) 3/14/2006 11:54:33 AM From: the_wheel Respond to Trust me, it wasn't easy getting used to it. I remember the first time they told me. I was in London on 911. I went down to the pub to watch CNN. Of course, they could tell I was a yank. They tried to console me by saying, "Well, you'll get used to it." "Get used to what I asked" incredulously. "Get used to random terrorist attacks, we do, we have the IRA, we get bomb threats all the time." "Bull chips", says I, "We're Americans, we won't take that crap, we'll fight back." Well, the next day I went down to the train station to go to the embassy to pay my respects and they announced that all trains were canceled, due to bomb threat, apparantly some upstanding citizen had left his McDonalds trash bag on the platform (they don't have trash cans in London, don't cha know, wouldn't be prudent), so I started getting used to it and went back to the local pub where they wanted to know why I was so late arriving back in 1944.
